I find myself unable to resist games that have some sort of completionist aspect to them. A completionist is a person who, when playing a video game, has to collect all of a certain item, or complete something in the game 100%. The one obvious completionist aspect of Pokemon is that players can strive to 'catch em all', with the intent to capture and store all of the monsters in the game. This is kind of pointless, though, because the game is not entirely consistent with making all of the pokemon in the player's pokedex (pokemon catalog) available to the player. For example, players outside of Japan are not able to obtain the time-traveling pokemon Celebi without hacking because only the players in Japan were allowed to access the event that gave them opportunity to encounter a Celebi. This is only one example, but it's the example that I find the most frustrating--Celebi is so cute. :-(This, of course, makes Pokemon a bit of a masochistic game for the completionist in me. Yet the allure of catching all those other adorable animals keeps me from abandoning the game completely. I guess I also like the boring stuff like battle tactics and coordination of the pokemons' types and movesets. You know, the stuff that actually has an intellectually stimulating effect on me. I guess that's good too.
